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Effects Of Imperialism In Avatar

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Have People ever thought about different color people? Have people ever wonder about slaves and how they were treated? Think about adults, children, and baby hands piling up. For example, people color like blue, green, and purple. Well there is something known as blue people. This came about in 2009 and directed by James Cameron. In 1870s policy or practice for government control called imperialism that control regions, with a negative impact, and was disturbed through the movie Avatar by resources, military, and how humans were portrayed. Imperialism started in Africa in 1870s. Africa was a new country being discovered and was wanted by all the humans. It started over the resources. This resources in include the following items: gold, diamonds, rubber, ivory, palm oil, cotton, and groundnut also know has peanuts. Next was through the military. In Africa the military consisted of combination of Army and Navy. Then it lead to was how people were portrayed. Humans were portrayed by the following: slaves, something called the white burdens, and culture differences. This was all over humans wanted government power. The last thing is in Africa people were known as missionaries; who attempted to convert the natives to Christianity, teach natives, and provide health care. This is how imperialism was started in Africa. …show more content…

It started when Jake Sully went to be a Avatar to find out more about him for people on Pandora. This was Sully one mission. When humans on Pandora found out that he was telling the Avatars that Pandora was coming. Pandora had to get revenge and Pandora want the unobtainium. Boom!, Pandora started to blow up Avatar which were like the slaves. Pandora did succeed for a little bit, but Sully wasn’t going to give up. Sully got all the Avatars together so Avatar could fight back and not give up. This is the scene that shows imperialism in

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Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, imperialism affected numerous societies across the world such as Africa, Japan, Great Britain, Korea, and Asia. Imperialism extends and influences a country’s power to gain territory and effects society with the inventions of education, transportation with roads, bridges, and canals, and communication with the telegraph. Great Britain has all the natural resources (raw materials), markets, and cheap labors that others lack such as Japan. Joseph Chamberlain believed colonies were valuable to Great Britain because they would increase the demand for goods, develop new markets, and would give an opportunity to extend influence and control over Africa (Doc 1).

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During the period circa 1850 C.E. to 1890 C.E., the results of the encroachment on the British colonization led to countless victories for the British. This led to a lot of changes for African societies. Because of the tactics of social stratification, the destruction of balance of power, and a loss of land and valuable resources, the Africans experienced devastating deprivations. The effects during the period of Imperialism created a system of social class and stratification.

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What was the driving force behind European Imperialism in Africa? Between 1500 and 1800 the Europeans knew  little about the interior of Africa their presence was to buy and sell slaves for pots, cloth, and weapons and set sail to America. Late as 1870 ten percent of Africa was under Europeans control and most was along edges by 1914 ninety percent of Africa was in control four years later.  Due to the countries that held African colonies in 1914 that involved the British, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spain, and Belgian. France and Britain were the main  conquer in African colonies, because there conqueror of land in Africa.

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Document 5 is an excerpt from The Diplomacy of Imperialism, a book by William L. Langer, that describes yet another possible reason for Imperialism. It explains that teaching about the survival of the fittest” justified and validated relentless competition and struggle. Although Darwin’s ideas are about science, this example of social Darwinism applies Darwin’s ideas to social issues and race which justifies the colonization of different areas that were allegedly “uncivilized”. Overall, social Darwinism is the social force that was the most responsible for new imperialism that began in the late nineteenth and twentieth

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